Music recognition app Shazam has surpassed the milestone of 300 million month-to-month lively customers worldwide.
Apple, which acquired Shazam for $400 million in 2018, doesn’t usually publish particular person stats about its apps, so as we speak’s information gives a uncommon little bit of perception into the expansion of the Shazam platform.
In August 2022, Apple revealed that the app had surpassed 70 billion track recognitions, and on the time, reported that Shazam had 225 million month-to-month lively customers worldwide.
In June 2021, the app surpassed 1 billion Shazams per 30 days, and in Might 2022, it surpassed two billion lifetime installs.
Shazam first launched as a textual content message service within the UK in August 2002, letting customers determine songs by dialing “2580” on their telephone and holding it up as a track performed.
They have been then despatched an SMS message telling them the track title and the title of the artist. Loopy by Gnarls Barkley was essentially the most Shazamed track utilizing the “2580” textual content service.
In July 2008, the Shazam app launched on Apple’s App Retailer and arrived on Android in October 2008. Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million, in September 2018.
Apple says that Shazam, one of many longest-standing apps on the App Retailer, “has been one of many earliest and strongest alerts” over the previous 20 years “of what the world is listening to”.
The corporate additionally notes that a few of the fastest-growing areas for Shazam’s userbase are in international locations in Africa and that African genres have been a few of the “fastest-growing” genres on the platform.
Rema’s Calm Down was No.1 on the High 100 in 2023 Shazam chart, after spending extra time atop the worldwide Shazam chart over the previous yr than every other track.
Rush by Ayra Starr and Individuals by Libianca additionally ended the yr among the many world’s prime Shazamed songs.
The remix to Calm Down that includes Selena Gomez finishes the yr at No. 12 on the worldwide songs chart — the best entry ever for a track by an African artist.
Apple says that the worldwide attain of Okay-Pop additionally continued to extend on Shazam this yr, and that the app’s person numbers have seen a notable development in South Korea.
Extra Okay-Pop songs have made it to the Shazam international charts in 2023 than in any earlier yr, with rising band FIFTY FIFTY reaching No.3 on the Shazam international charts, marking the primary time a Okay-Pop act aside from BTS or certainly one of its members has charted this excessive.
Música Mexicana additionally noticed important development on the app within the final 12 months, with the one 5 tracks from this style to enter the US Shazam High 10 all doing so throughout the final yr.
Elsewhere at Shazam, the app lately added a brand new hub that permits its customers to find customized reside music occasions inside their space.
The brand new function, known as ‘Live shows’, makes use of customers’ Shazam historical past to ship curated occasion suggestions. This offers customers the power to browse, search, and filter by artist, date, location and discover trending live shows multi functional app.
In 2021, Apple Music began utilizing Shazam’s know-how to determine tracks in DJ Mixes in order that rightsholders receives a commission.
Cinq Music Group’s repertoire has gained Grammy awards, dozens of Gold and Platinum RIAA certifications, and quite a few No.1 chart positions on a wide range of Billboard charts. Its repertoire consists of heavyweights corresponding to Unhealthy Bunny, Janet Jackson, Daddy Yankee, T.I., Sean Kingston, Anuel, and lots of extra.Music Enterprise Worldwide
